{"id":3509,"date":"2011-01-31T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2011-01-31T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:05:24","slug":"spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was the pronouncer for the City Spelling Bee this morning. I&#8217;ve done it most years since 1997 and have done all the larger Regional Spelling Bees since about that time. We&#8217;ve been losing participants because of tough times and the growing charges levied against participating schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your world is &#8220;insolvency.&#8221; Because of fiscal imprudence the school district is facing almost certain insolvency. Insolvency.<\/strong><em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the pronouncer for the City Spelling Bee this morning. I&#8217;ve done it most years since 1997 and have done all the larger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,35,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}